1. A European provider #
The universes and sovereignty.
Overview #
OVHcloud is a French provider that designs its own servers and operates its own data centers (Roubaix, Gravelines, Strasbourg, Paris, Beauharnois…). Its Public Cloud is based on OpenStack: the standard OpenStack APIs and CLI work, which avoids proprietary lock-in.
Sovereignty: For sensitive data, some offerings hold the ANSSI SecNumCloud qualification (trusted cloud) and most are hosted in the European Union.
2. Projects, regions and access #
Organizing and connecting.
Organization #
| Notion | Role |
|---|---|
| Customer account (NIC) | Billing, contacts, account security |
| Public Cloud project | Container for resources, quotas and billing (equivalent of an OpenStack project) |
| Region | GRA, SBG, RBX, BHS, WAW, DE, UK… and three-availability-zone regions (Paris) |
| OpenStack user | Technical credentials for the API, the CLI or Terraform, with roles |
# fichier openrc téléchargé depuis l'espace client (projet > Users & Roles)
source openrc.sh # exporte OS_AUTH_URL, OS_PROJECT_ID, OS_REGION_NAME…
openstack token issue
openstack region list
openstack flavor list --sort-column RAM | head
openstack image list --public | grep -i ubuntu3. Pricing #
Simple and predictable.
Principles #
- Hourly or monthly billing for instances (the monthly plan is cheaper for permanent use).
- Outbound traffic included on many ranges (check depending on the region and service).
- Object Storage billed per GB stored; Cold Archive for long-term archiving.
- No data ingress fees.
Good practice: Switch instances that run permanently to monthly billing and keep hourly billing for temporary environments.
